Ever since MetaCPAN launched I’ve been getting increasingly irritated with people who still use links to search.cpan.org. Isn’t it obvious that MetaCPAN is better? Why do people still insist on sharing links to the older site? Of course they do it for various reasons. Perhaps they aren’t as in touch with the modern Perl world […]
Author: Dave Cross
Dave Cross runs Magnum Solutions Ltd., a London Perl consultancy.
In 1998 he started London Perl Mongers, the first Perl Mongers group outside of Northern America.
He is the author of Data Munging with Perl and a co-author of Perl Template Toolkit.
Upcoming Training
It’s a new year, so it’s probably a good time to remind you about some training sessions that I have coming up. Perl School 4 is on 9th February. The subject this time is Database Programming with Perl and DBIx::Class. As always, a full day of training costs just £30 and the class will be […]
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Perl School 3
Yesterday was the third Perl School. Twenty-one students converged on Google Campus in London and spend a day learning about Moose. The day seemed to go well. People asked intelligent questions and seemed to understand what I was telling them. Hopefully the feedback forms will tell a similar story. No more training now for a […]
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Why Corporates Hate Perl
This is a reprint of an old blog post. A few years ago I was writing blog posts (semi-)regularly for O’Reilly. This is the one that probably got the most feedback. I’m reprinting it now because a) it’s pretty hard to find on the O’Reilly site and b) it’s relevant to a couple of conversations […]
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Speaking at the LPW
I gave three talks at the London Perl Workshop yesterday[1]. That wasn’t the original plan, but I kept coming up with talks that seemed to be good ideas. The last one was on 25 Years of Perl was a bit of a failure as I broke the second rule of presenting (always plug in your […]